Grateful Friday

 Even though my day will be sad tomorrow without Adam around (he's out of town), I'm grateful for the weekend.  

The happy sad news is that we have four weeks of school left.  I will miss my class.  I love them.  I will not miss the regimented gotta go to bed early so I can get up early.  (I will still go to sleep and get up relatively early, but I won't HAVE to and that makes me feel happy.)

I'm grateful for summer.

I'm also grateful for the budding authors in my class.  Yesterday six of them lined up to read a chapter from their books.  One girl just copied one of my picture books and some of them are rambling and nonsensical and one girl's is kind of dark.  There's a kidnapping.

It is all writing (except the one...) and it thrills me.

And we clapped just the same for the copier.  I mean, she's practicing her handwriting, right?  And no one is under the impression she wrote that.

I'm grateful for primary and activity days and Come Follow Me.  I did a survey for Gallup the other day and it was a lot about how I am feeling/doing and there were these questions about my spiritual practices and service and I see a direct correlation, even though I don't have a super demanding calling right now.  It still lifts me.

What a great system!

I'm grateful for spring!  The blossoms are turning to green leaves.  The grass is green.  I have been walking with my neighbor, Kim, and that is a blessing in my life.

Just my ordinary little corner of the world.  I'm grateful for it.